Artist-focused, community-oriented, and committed to showcasing the infinite potential of nonfiction media, the third annual Mimesis Documentary Festival, August 2-7, 2022, in Boulder, Colorado, is an immersive theatrical and virtual slate of movies, workshops, and more with artists, producers, and scholars from around the world.

In partnership with the Mission Zero Fund, the Mimesis Documentary Festival presents the Mission Zero Prize.

MDF returns to the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, Colorado August 2nd - 7th, 2022, showcasing personal, underrepresented, and culturally specific projects that offer the most profound experiences of art made from life.

In 2021, Mimesis held its first-ever hybrid (in-person + virtual) Documentary Festival, hosted in August by the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, Colorado with major support from the Stewart Family Foundation. An event attended by hundreds of artists, students, scholars, and members of the community, MDF showcased almost 100 works by some of the most dynamic voices in documentary and ethnographic media…

The second annual Mimesis Documentary Festival, presented August 4-10, 2021 at Dairy Arts Center and the ATLAS Institute B2 Center for Media, Arts, and Performance in Boulder, Colorado, is an immersive theatrical and virtual experience featuring in-person and at-home screenings, workshops, and conversations with documentary artists, scholars, and producers from across the world.

The 2021 Mimesis Documentary Festival featured in Westword.